Colorful video and song. Hope your warm and toasty in that brisk Minnesota air. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and another bright New Year. Love Manzanita
So lovely to be reminded of this haunting, evocative song this morning. Perfect choice for Christmas Eve. Have a wonderful time.... I like the bike on the roof, as good a reason as any to buy a house!
Ah, what a wonderful way to ring in this Christmas day. As I listen to snow clumps lightly buffeting the roof and look back on this year past, the thing I missed most were regular visits here.
With work demands outpacing energy, other things have slowed. Little time for leaving a blog post here and there yes, but more importantly, little time for reading the posts of others. Yours most especially. They fill me up.
The vast universe, depicted so beautifully in the video and song, deserves appreciation and attention. Awe. Sometimes it takes a day or two away from the deadlines to reconnect with universe. The awe. Thanks for putting things in perspective for me, again.
Sending you hugs, love and wishes for a beautiful day in the Christmas vortex dear one.
I did, simple and fairly quiet. I hope you did, too. It's nice to hear from you. You've crossed my mind a few times lately and I was wondering how things have been....
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.” ~Katherine Mansfield
"All of us, all of us, all of us, trying to save our immortal souls, some ways more roundabout and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here, but hope all will be revealed soon." ~Raymond Carver
"We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds" ~ Ruth St. Denis
"I have always loved a window, especially an open one."
~ Wendell Berry
"Let us abolish policemen who carry clubs and revolvers, and put in a squad of poets armed to the teeth with poems on Spring and Love." ~ Mark Twain
1. Be Impeccable with your Word. 2. Don't Take Anything Personally. 3. Don't Make Assumptions. 4. Always Do Your Best.
Vincent van Gogh "Gypsy Caravan at Arles"
"Come, Come, Whoever you are! Wanderer, Worshipper, Lover of Leaving, Come. This is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you've broken Your vows a thousand times, still Come. And yet again Come!"
~ Rumi (translation by Coleman Barks)
Winslow Homer "Girl With Hay Rake"
"...And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit that impels
All thinking things, all objects of thought,
And rolls through all things."
~William Wordsworth, from Tintern Abbey
"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." Walt Whitman
"The mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear, as you yourself do at dawn, sailing through the light."
~Rumi (translation by Coleman Barks)
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein
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Lovely song and video, have a nice holiday.It has been fun blogging this past year.
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Teresa, I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!!! Give Buddy a Christmas smooch for me.
ReplyDeleteColorful video and song. Hope your warm and toasty in that brisk Minnesota air.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very Merry Christmas and another bright New Year.
Love Manzanita
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ReplyDeleteHappy a cool and happy celebration Teresa!
ReplyDeleteWonderful. I really like this particular song! Wishing you a very merry Christmas! And please keep writing. You have a wonderful talent.
ReplyDeleteI wish you love in overflowing abundance all the days to come.
ReplyDeleteHappy holidays, dear girl.
Merry Christmas to you and yours Teresa =]
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Teresa, and thanks for all of your lovely postings and comments throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely to be reminded of this haunting, evocative song this morning. Perfect choice for Christmas Eve. Have a wonderful time.... I like the bike on the roof, as good a reason as any to buy a house!
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful song. I am enjoying it as I write this, filled with love and wonder. Thank you, Teresa, for being part of my life. :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful video ...
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Teresa ;)
Love and wonder, indeed.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Teresa!
How can we not believe in something bigger than us when we see the universe in all it's splendor?
ReplyDeleteMay the New Year bring you many blessings, Teresa.
Beautiful video, Teresa, Merry Christmas. Thanks for the year past. Looking forward to the next.
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Christmas Morning: Thank you all for this beautiful friendship.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Teresa!!
ReplyDeleteAh, what a wonderful way to ring in this Christmas day. As I listen to snow clumps lightly buffeting the roof and look back on this year past, the thing I missed most were regular visits here.
ReplyDeleteWith work demands outpacing energy, other things have slowed. Little time for leaving a blog post here and there yes, but more importantly, little time for reading the posts of others. Yours most especially. They fill me up.
The vast universe, depicted so beautifully in the video and song, deserves appreciation and attention. Awe. Sometimes it takes a day or two away from the deadlines to reconnect with universe. The awe. Thanks for putting things in perspective for me, again.
Sending you hugs, love and wishes for a beautiful day in the Christmas vortex dear one.
Chris, I am so happy to hear from you, and I thank you for your kind words. Sending you a big hug and much love as we move into a New Year.
DeleteNice selection. Thanks. Hope you had a good Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteI did, simple and fairly quiet. I hope you did, too. It's nice to hear from you. You've crossed my mind a few times lately and I was wondering how things have been....
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